Kerensa, Doug B., Bree A., & Duana S., you might think I'm crazy, but I don't even care. I still like Huey Lewis and the News.

From john: Hey guys! We think that probably everything is fixed with the formatting on the page. If it's still wonky for you, however, would you e-mail me and tell me about it at comments(at)cakewrecks.com? Thanks! -j

-Anniversary of a gender-change operation-Family member moved to Australia and then had a birthday and you don't understand the term "Down Under"-Cake for a Roloff family birthday-Send it to the neighbor that you're stalking who lives directly below you in your apartment complex

Happy Birthday Down There just sounds dirty. Naughty, naughty snowman!

That last one is a cautionary tale for what happens when you try to make a CCC (ptooie!) into a regular ole sheet cake. And if you're really, really lucky, you'll get a literal writing mishap in *addition* to your nonsensical pink amoeba with two wobbly hearts for eyeballs. It's two wrecks for the price of one!

Those never get old. It never ceases to amaze me that people can make that mistake, and then actually sell the cake. Truely talented individuals must work at these bakeries, or should it be wreckeries?

Have bakeries learned nothing from the "Underneat that" cake? These should be part of the cake decorator hiring process: What do you see wrong with this? Nothing? OK, thanks for coming in. No, don't call us, we'll call you ... if we need you.

By the way, I posted yesterday about the overlapping showing up in Firefox, but today everything looks fine and normal.

How DO you celebrate in the middle? The poor wallflowers get left out....

Does a snowman HAVE a down there to celebrate? (snowball fight, anyone?)

The maker of Ellen's cake OBVIOUSLY has never heard of Cake Wrecks. They just repeated the Original Sin.

Ah, a freeform CCC! possibly the only "acceptable" kind since there's no real shape to be judged by. pretty little flowers, too. Shame they botched the directions. It may have looked nice with a lovely scrolling "Averie" across the front, rather than "across entire Front (squished)"

wv: predwin. the early morning hours that bakers get to work. which could explain a lot of these mistakes from sleepy hungover staffers.

@Taylor. I like your theories. Especially for wishing a birthday to someone somewhere "down there." Could even be someone who moved south. And the celebrants are having a cake up north in their honor. Virtual birthday!

No, no, no...it is very simply a conspiracy.Don't you see? These clowns want to be in your next BOOK!!! If the next one is already full, then they want to be in the NEXT next book. Or the one underneat that.Don't fall for it.Some people just have no skroopuls, y'know?=^u.u^=

Ok...I will admit I had to look at the snowman a second time. I thought it was here because of blue boobs. However after re examining the wording it does say down here. I thought it said Doctor There...figured it to be for a plastic surgeon with the blue body parts...lol

If you ever get in a pinch and need someone to write the blog for you, I think my 3-year old daughter might be the one. About the last cake, she says, "Whoa, is that red boat a cake? It has a butterfly on it. Is that a butterfly? Is that a cake?" :)

Maybe the recipient of the snow-blob cake had an, um, "reshaping" of parts "down there", and thus they have a seperate "birth" date? And that's why the scarf, with it's two red tips, points to the nether-regions? The hole in the white icing at that location and the tacked-on blue circles on the chest imply what was once a snow man is now a snow-woman!

Seriously, how can people who do these cakes still have jobs? My sister and I have been trying to become cake decorators for the last couple of years but they wont hire us because we dont have any college training since we learned ours from other cake decorators, but our portfolio show great cakes. and here we have people who have the job and cant even understand what they are suppose to put on the cake! Oh geez!

Maybe it is time for some good old fashioned shame - you know that stuff of Victorian times. If you posted the source of these cakes you might be doing the English majors and hapless customers a service; but then I wouldn't be rushing to my computer each morning for yet another edition of idiocy. Keep up the good work Jen and John. Keep up the good comments everyone else. You are part of the fun. I live in a community that insists that accommodate has one M. You don't want to waste any Ms in Modesto after all.

What amazes me are how clueless the customers are who insist on writing instructions for decorating in the message section of the order form. Maybe the wreckerators are just fed up with having to second guess the "always right" customer!

I'm thinking the average supermarket wreckarator must maintain a pretty good buzz in order to think these inscriptions make sense. wreckarator 1 -- Let's celebrate in the middle. That's deep. Don't wait until it's all over to celebrate. Do it know while you're in the middle of things.Wreckerator 2 -- Oh, I thought the cake was like directions to the party you know, the middle of the road or the middle of the park. Wow. Cake can be really thought provoking.

I got song whiplash! (Unless Jen is intentionally writing on 2 levels at once?) The title and the first line "All together, now" had me singing Beatles songs in my head. And the "lyrics" fit to the tune of "Here, There, and Everywhere" by the Beatles...until suddenly Huey Lewis jumped in! Whiplash!

So, Jen, may we have a Beatles day? Pleeease? (Bambi eyes, eyelash flutter)

vw: unstoraw - It's impossible to unstoraw these Beatles songs in my head, so we might as well use them for something.

The first one reminded me of the naked mohawk baby carrot jockey cake LOL

I can just hear the conversation at the bakery between wreckorators:

Dude, what are you doing to that cake?Decorating it. Why?Dude, you weren't supposed to write the instructions on the cake!Oh snap! I'll just wrap it up and pretend not to notice.Dude, you're cruising to show up on Cake Wrecks.Dude! That would be so totally awesome!

I want a new cake!One that won't be a wreck. One that won't be a CCC or shaped like 'blech'.One that will look appealing,Quality through and through,Until that time I'll visit Cake Wrecks for cakes covered in 'poo'!Cakes covered in 'poo'!

I need to order a graduation cake for my daughter, and I am SO tempted to have the cake say "Congradulations and under that Beth in red". If somebody dared me, I think I might. If my daughter was okay with it. And she's got a pretty good sense of humor. But my mom might not get it.

OH...MY...LANTA... I think that I may have sprained something laughing. The snow "person" cracked me up---I guess if your boobs are frosty and blue, you can't have too happy of a birthday UP THERE. So your only choice is to salvage the day with a happy one DOWN THERE!!!!

Oh how sorry I feel for the person that got that adorable snowman cake only for it to say happy birthday down there.. why not just happy birthday everywhere? Lol. Tragic that such a cute cake had to be ruined.

I kind of feel like I should leave a comment just because my WV is "aintabbl," as in "The wreckerator aintabbl to read the order form properly." But I don't really have a lot to add to what's been said already.

I did want to note that the site is definitely loading faster for me now (using Camino on an old Mac Powerbook), plus I like the new fonts.

I think I met a future wreckerator today!!! OK, he was the cashier at the local grocery store (which has disappointingly lovely cakes in the cases), but we were chatting, and I mentioned Canada Day. His comment? He asked me when it was, because he "can never remember". I should note, at this point, that he had a very local accent. And was late teens/early twenties. So should know by now that (a) it's the same day every year (sorta like Christmas or Hallowe'en), and (b) It's July 1 (sorta like Independence Day or Anzac Day for the U.S. or Australia). I politely managed to keep my eyes from bugging out of my head... but sent up a silent prayer that he becomes a cake decorator next since he clearly has an excellent future for being mocked at here on the grounds of sheer stupidity. Unlike most cases, which I suspect are simply language/cultural differences ;)

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